upriver
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- r toward the source or against the current
- Why, Smith baldly lied, he and his mates had merely been chased upriver by the wicked Spanish and would soon be gone.
- Growing up in a town some 40 miles upriver, I saw overwhelming evidence that the more accurate image is that of a city that care forgot.
- You swing out the line upriver and let it drift down in a natural motion.